Gregory,
As I see, Count wants a form or a pattern describing the appearance
of an element or the element be in a Wolfram defined domain. I do
not see how a criteria like being bigger than -9 can be encapsulated
into an appearance. When you do Count[xx[[All,14]],-9.] it is giving
you NOT who EQUALs to -9 but rather who LOOKs LIKE -9. For me that
is two different things.
Of course it does not mean that someone else cannot do it :)
Here is my second newbie approach, in this case using Count:
Count[(#1 > 9 & ) /@
xmat[[All,14]], True]
It is still a combo. It is a little slower for small lists then the
Length[Select[...]] combo.
With the best,
János
On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Thanks János,
>
> That would be my natural inclination: to combine two functions,
> Length and Select in this case, to get a result that serves as a
> check of whatever I'm able to hammer out directly using something
> like Count.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, János wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 5, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>>
>>> The syntax will be the death of me.
>>>
>>> Count[X[[All,14]], -9.] will tally how many elements in column 14 of
>>> matrix X are equal to -9, but I can't for the life of me figure out
>>> how to get how many are greater than -9. Any hint would be most
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>
>> Here is a newbie approach:
>>
>> In[1]:=
>> xmat = Table[Table[
>> Random[Integer,
>> {1, 100}], {i, 1, 20}],
>> {j, 1, 30}]
>>
>>
>> In[6]:=
>> Length[Select[xmat[[All,14]],
>> #1 > 9 & ]]
>> Out[6]=
>> 25
>>
>>
>> János
>>
>>
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